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Chinese speakers - English to pinyin program/website?

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AnthroAndStargate

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For all the Chinese-Mandrain speakers of ATOT, do any of you know of a good website/program that lets you type in an English word and have it output the pinyin word/phrase?

I am in China doing some research but my Chinese has gotten really rusty and I could use a tool to lookup certain words that I don't know/have forgotten.

???!

 
i read the title as your chinese painting is not good.

i used to do the cut and paste method to input chinese. which is pain and tedious... no one ever taught me the correct input method. ( i guess that's why i couldn't get a technical job in taipei and work from home in the states).

i have a new touch pad that my relative got for me from chinese, the land of cheap software, for only $7 US, i can "write" chinese on it and it'll show up.

?????
 
Originally posted by: Flammable
Originally posted by: sao123
Is it difficult to learn to speak and read chinese from scratch?
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over 10k characters....to be able to understand a newspaper you need to know at least 3000
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it sounds worse than it is. to read an english newspaper you need to know a lot of words too. once you have enough basic knowledge of chinese characters, you'll find them to be usually no more than 2 dimensional spelling.

as for whether it is difficult... probably yeah since it is rather different. I'm sure it'd be more difficult than french or something for a native english speaker.
 
Originally posted by: dighn
Originally posted by: Flammable
Originally posted by: sao123
Is it difficult to learn to speak and read chinese from scratch?
Click to expand...

over 10k characters....to be able to understand a newspaper you need to know at least 3000
Click to expand...

it sounds worse than it is. to read an english newspaper you need to know a lot of words too. once you have enough basic knowledge of chinese characters, you'll find them to be usually no more than 2 dimensional spelling.

as for whether it is difficult... probably yeah since it is rather different. I'm sure it'd be more difficult than french or something for a native english speaker.
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Well for starters... the symbols are just plain different...

Wheel of Fortune in Chinese...
I'd like to buy a upside down house with a cow on top...
 
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